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Life is messy & so am ITue, 05 Feb 2019 21:16:46 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3https://i2.wp.com/www.meli-mello.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-IMG_6004.jpg?fit=32%2C32meli-mellohttp://www.meli-mello.com
323215242060Birthdays and a Fast Fashion ranthttp://www.meli-mello.com/birthdays-and-a-fast-fashion-rant/
http://www.meli-mello.com/birthdays-and-a-fast-fashion-rant/#commentsTue, 05 Feb 2019 21:16:07 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2724I had big plans to write a loving letter to Oonagh for her 6th birthday (which was on Friday) and something about World Cancer Day – which was yesterday – but things got away from me. We have had multiple illnesses in the family culminating in my own body deciding to purge everything yesterday. The answer to the question, ‘why… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/birthdays-and-a-fast-fashion-rant/feed/22724Kicked out of my own kitchen (because it isn’t just “my” kitchen).http://www.meli-mello.com/kicked-out-of-my-own-kitchen-because-it-isnt-just-my-kitchen/
http://www.meli-mello.com/kicked-out-of-my-own-kitchen-because-it-isnt-just-my-kitchen/#commentsMon, 28 Jan 2019 18:07:44 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2721We had a great weekend. I knit. I sewed. I even left the house and hung out with a friend (one of my goals this year: to say yes to invitations). Yesterday Miss Oonagh woke up sick so I got a lot of snuggles. Plus we had book club on Friday which means I am DONE with Us Conductors and… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/kicked-out-of-my-own-kitchen-because-it-isnt-just-my-kitchen/feed/22721Meeting of the Cancer Clubhttp://www.meli-mello.com/meeting-of-the-cancer-club/
http://www.meli-mello.com/meeting-of-the-cancer-club/#commentsThu, 24 Jan 2019 18:15:01 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2717Yesterday there was an impromptu meeting of the Cancer Club – which isn’t really a club and only has two members in it: myself and my friend with multiple myeloma. Our daughters dubbed it “the cancer club” because we try to get together for our bone juice (bisphosphonate infusion) appointments every three months. But this month she couldn’t come because… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/meeting-of-the-cancer-club/feed/62717The Back to the Blog Movementhttp://www.meli-mello.com/the-back-to-the-blog-movement/
http://www.meli-mello.com/the-back-to-the-blog-movement/#commentsMon, 21 Jan 2019 20:01:47 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2715I have taken that title directly from Kerry Clare’s post on her blog: Pickle Me This. If you haven’t read her post I strongly encourage you to go click the above links and read it. But even if you don’t it’s okay, I will be quoting heavily from it. “I blog to make sense of the world,” is the way… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/the-back-to-the-blog-movement/feed/142715Last day of school, first day of vacationhttp://www.meli-mello.com/last-day-of-school-first-day-of-vacation/
http://www.meli-mello.com/last-day-of-school-first-day-of-vacation/#commentsWed, 13 Jun 2018 03:08:34 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2712Tomorrow we are off on our month long Ireland adventure. Not sure if I will get a chance to blog about it. Part of me wants to and part of me wants to just disconnect as much as possible. It’s been a hard week with so many celebrity suicides and non-celebrity suicides and I have felt like social media is… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/last-day-of-school-first-day-of-vacation/feed/22712Thirteen Dayshttp://www.meli-mello.com/thirteen-days/
http://www.meli-mello.com/thirteen-days/#respondFri, 01 Jun 2018 16:53:18 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2709In thirteen days the five of us will be getting on a plane to spend a month in Ireland. But in between today and the 13th of June I feel like we have eleventy billion things to get done. This weekend alone is nuts with the Writer’s Guild of Alberta conference, a birthday party for the girls to attend, a… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/thirteen-days/feed/02709The last time I ate a meatball sub. To be filed under: I can’t believe we are still dealing with this shithttp://www.meli-mello.com/the-last-time-i-ate-a-meatball-sub-to-be-filed-under-i-cant-believe-we-are-still-dealing-with-this-shit/
http://www.meli-mello.com/the-last-time-i-ate-a-meatball-sub-to-be-filed-under-i-cant-believe-we-are-still-dealing-with-this-shit/#commentsMon, 21 May 2018 16:52:56 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2698Next Friday the people of Ireland are voting whether or not say Yes or No on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution which gives the unborn child equal right to life as the mother (as adopted in 1983). That’s putting it in very simple tones. Abortion has been criminalized in Ireland since 1861 and what the 8th Amendment really… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/the-last-time-i-ate-a-meatball-sub-to-be-filed-under-i-cant-believe-we-are-still-dealing-with-this-shit/feed/32698Reading With My Daughters: Sophie’s Masterpiecehttp://www.meli-mello.com/reading-with-my-daughters-sophies-masterpiece/
http://www.meli-mello.com/reading-with-my-daughters-sophies-masterpiece/#respondFri, 18 May 2018 22:08:47 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2699 Sophie’s Masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli, Illustrated by Jane Dyer. I bought this book years ago as a discard from our local public library. Moira was most likely a baby at the time I bought it but I will confess to buying picture books before I even considered having children so I may have had it for even longer than… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/reading-with-my-daughters-sophies-masterpiece/feed/02699Mothershttp://www.meli-mello.com/mothers/
http://www.meli-mello.com/mothers/#commentsWed, 16 May 2018 15:57:48 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2688I thought about writing a Mother’s Day post this year and all the things I could say and then I went on the internet and kept getting told that not everyone is happy about Mother’s Day and to please think of all the women who would like to be mothers but can’t be, or the women who have lost their… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/mothers/feed/32688What else is there?http://www.meli-mello.com/what-else-is-there/
http://www.meli-mello.com/what-else-is-there/#commentsFri, 11 May 2018 16:58:04 +0000http://www.meli-mello.com/?p=2679Currently we are reading Catch-22 for book club. I think our book club is currently being called People Who Actually Read the Book club but I haven’t been following along with the discussion. In my head I call it Mensa Book Club Drop Outs & Their Spouses (I’m the spouse, not the Mensa person in case there was any doubt)… Read more →]]>http://www.meli-mello.com/what-else-is-there/feed/32679